June, 2016

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What pisses off creative people more than anything else

Idea to Value

Everyone who has a naturally creative spark knows the dreaded feeling. The moment you realise that you’re actually being discouraged from having ideas because other people think they’re a waste of time. Have you ever experienced this: Your boss, manager or CEO decides that they need to come up with some new ideas for something. […].

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We’re in the top 5% of firms ranked by Happiness Works!

Exago

Exago’s one of the top 5% happiest organisations to work in, ranking eleventh in the Happiness Works – Happy Company 2016 initiative, among 209 surveyed participants. Now in its fifth edition, every year, Happiness Works assesses the overall well-being and. Read More. The post We’re in the top 5% of firms ranked by Happiness Works! appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Applying innovation thinking in different horizons

Paul Hobcraft

In the past few days, I have had some exchanges on twitter with Jairo H Venegas and Ralph-Christian Ohr on different thinking around the three horizon methodology. We share similar views on its value and partly how it can be applied. Ralph and I exchange constantly and occasionally meet up together. Actually, we need another meeting Ralph to catch up and explore these mutual innovation value points.

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Why FUD has innovation all locked up

Jeffrey Phillips

Ralph Ohr and I were exchanging ideas today via Twitter, and we were talking about a recent study of German executives that looked at why innovation failed in German companies. The top three reasons why innovation didn't move forward came down to fear, uncertainty and doubt. Oh, those weren't exactly the words that were used, but in context for today's post they'll work nicely.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Exploring the Intrapreneurial Way in Large Organizations

HYPE Innovation

Are we seeing a change in mentality within large organizations towards encouraging individuals to ‘break out and become more intrapreneurial within their part of the business?'. Is this tapping into the increasing desire to be part of creating something new, to grab back the engagement needed, that sense of identity and a growing sense of ownership?

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Idealize the Answer

Destination Innovation

When you are looking at a tricky problem try specifying the ideal answer in a world where there are no constraints. What would a perfect solution look like if we had unlimited resources to achieve it? In the book, Idealized Design [i] , Russell Ackoff, Magidson and Addison describe how Bell labs did just such a thing with the telephone. In the 1950s the VP of Bell labs challenged teams of engineers to design ‘the telephone system with which we would replace the existing system if we were free

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ASO Company holds innovation and intrapreneurship conference in Istanbul

Exago

Exago’s partner ASO Company brought together over 100 innovation and human resources managers and some of Turkey’s leading firms – such as Siemens, LinkedIn and Vodafone – for its Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship Conference, this month in Istanbul. At the. Read More. The post ASO Company holds innovation and intrapreneurship conference in Istanbul appeared first on www.exago.com.

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I keep arguing we all need to seek out innovation alignment

Paul Hobcraft

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers. They execute to their own understanding and often the innovations end up as not strategically aligned. That is plainly wrong, not knowing the strategic objectives it is one of the principle causes of innovation failure and requires fixing.

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Being a good innovator is not enough

Jeffrey Phillips

I think there are few firms that were more innovative than Intel. Notice that I'm using the past tense. Intel, lead by an excellent leader in Andy Grove, had a passion for being the best. Grove's focus - "only the paranoid survive" kept Intel as an industry leader and innovator. When I was younger, working for Texas Instruments, Intel seemed to constantly reinvent the computing industry.

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Playing chess with the Red Queen

HYPE Innovation

This is the Red Queen, one of the famous characters in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. And whilst she is an undoubtedly intriguing person, someone you might want to get to know better, here’s a word of advice. Don't try playing chess with her – you’ll very soon find yourself out of your depth! There are three problems you’ll have to confront if you do decide you'd like to give it a go.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Managing With A Soul

Digital Tonto

The truth is that an organization doesn't find its soul by looking inside itself, but by finding its place in the world. Related posts: The Efficiency Paradox. 6 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Your Organization Needs a “Whip” to Help Build a Widespread Innovation Culture

Idea to Value

The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival establishes a foundation of 10 Key Imperatives intended to help everyone from beginners to seasoned innovators. These 10 simple and practical steps create a structured, repeatable innovation process to Create and Sustain Innovation in order to Innovate and Thrive in an intensely competitive marketplace.

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Exago’s brand new 3.5 release is out, and it’s more flexible than ever

Exago

Exago’s 3.5 Idea Market release has arrived, offering a flexible workflow that fits your company’s reality and innovation programme. Answering clients’ identified needs, we continue the evolution path: 3.5 offers significant workflow options to meet your specific idea management process. The post Exago’s brand new 3.5 release is out, and it’s more flexible than ever appeared first on www.exago.com.

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I keep arguing we all need to seek out innovation alignment

Paul Hobcraft

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘pushed down’ the organisation for others to interpret and offer their answers.That is plainly wrong, it is one of the principle causes of innovation failure. This lack of alignment and top leadership engagement is one of the main issues on why many organisations seem to just simply ‘limp’ along in their innovation activity.

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How Mature Companies Are Scaling Transformational New Businesses

Scaling transformational innovations in large companies is challenging due to ‘Company Fit’ issues, which arise when the resources, processes, and priorities (RPPs) of the core business are not aligned with the needs of the new business. Many companies have learned how ambidexterity—the ability to both ‘exploit the present and explore the future,’ can help them address these issues for ideation and incubation of new innovations, but scaling transformative business innovations remains a challenge

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Making innovation less difficult and less expensive

Jeffrey Phillips

I've made a simple drawing to illustrate what many of you already know. Too many people in the innovation arena are apt to talk about ideas, which are relatively easy to get, but fail to consider the effort involved to move from an idea stage to an innovation stage. I've often compared this to the amount of force it takes to get a rocket into orbit.

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Microsoft’s Seeing AI Glasses

Braden Kelley

Saqib Shaikh lives is blind, lives in London, and is a core Microsoft developer. He lost the use of his eyes at age 7.

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The Data Delusion

Digital Tonto

The notion that you can transform a failing media company—or any company in any industry for that matter— by infusing it with data and algorithms is terribly misguided. Related posts: The Problem. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Join our free webinar: The biggest breakthrough in creativity training of 2016

Idea to Value

Hi everyone, I have some very exciting news, which I’d like you to join me for in an exclusive free Webinar. Date: Thursday 23 June Time: 6:00 pm BST (UK Time) – free replays available to all registrants As you know, I put a lot of focus into finding out exactly how the brain generates ideas, […]. Originally published at Join our free webinar: The biggest breakthrough in creativity training of 2016.

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Exago’s brand new 3.5 release is out, and it’s more flexible than ever

Exago

Exago’s 3.5 Idea Market release has arrived, offering a flexible workflow that fits your company’s reality and innovation programme. Answering clients’ identified needs, we continue the evolution path: 3.5 offers significant workflow options to meet your specific idea management process. The post Exago’s brand new 3.5 release is out, and it’s more flexible than ever appeared first on www.exago.com.

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The role Human Resources can play in Innovation and its needed Design

Paul Hobcraft

The management of human resource (HRM) needs to be replaced with the management of human creativity and ingenuity, as this is the triggering point to innovation success and delivering longer-term sustaining success. The critical role of innovation is without question needed for the future growth, wealth creation and organisations potential survival.

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Innovation circles the publishing industry

Jeffrey Phillips

There are a few relatively hide-bound industries in the US that have to date been somewhat impervious to real innovation. If you've followed this blog you know that I believe traditional retail banking is one of those industries. Retail banking is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Another industry ripe for innovation is the book publishing industry.

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5 Things to stop doing to enable enterprise innovation

Moves the Needle

*This post originally appeared on Mind the Product. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has decreased from 67 years (1950’s) to about 15 years (today). The market is changing faster than ever, and an organization’s ability to move at the speed of the Internet is the only chance at surviving and thriving. For the enterprise world, the rallying cry is similar to the classic American Revolution meme, “Join or Die.

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Implementing Intelligent Document Processing Solutions: Why It Works

See how companies like yours are tackling some of today’s most common business problems using AI-assisted automation for document processing. Manually capturing, extracting, and processing data within documents is a costly and outdated practice that’s holding your company back. IDP takes document processing to a whole new level so you can understand and use your data more effectively than ever before.

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It Takes A Lot More Than A Big Idea To Change The World

Digital Tonto

It seems that whenever we go searching for gods, what we find are ecosystems. Related posts: The One Thing That Can Transform An Idea Into A Phenomenon. Why Energy Storage May Be The Most Important. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why September 1752 skipped 11 days (or learning about how time works)

Idea to Value

Time. It’s our most precious resource, yet one we often waste the most. Yet have you ever thought about how exactly our idea of time came to be? What makes a day last 24 hours, and why this is the same for people across the world even if their days are different lengths throughout the […]. Originally published at Why September 1752 skipped 11 days (or learning about how time works).

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How to conquer your audience

Exago

Giving you easy access to new sources of innovation, open innovation practices allow you to ask different questions of different communities. The post How to conquer your audience appeared first on www.exago.com.

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The role Human Resources can play in Innovation and its needed Design

Paul Hobcraft

The management of human resource (HRM) needs to be replaced with the management of human creativity and ingenuity, as this is the triggering point to innovation success and delivering longer-term sustaining success. The critical role of innovation is without question needed for the future growth, wealth creation and organisations potential survival.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How UX Will Save the World

Boxes and Arrows

Douglas Adams, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe , tells the story of the Golgafrinchians. The people of planet Golgafrincham, the story goes, figured out how to get rid of an entire useless third of their population by duping them into thinking the planet was doomed and that they were eligible for the first ship out. This group was, apparently, designated by profession: Doctors, teachers, and (presumably) writers of humorous science-fiction were deemed worthy to remain; telephone san

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Enterprise lean startup experiment examples

Moves the Needle

Lean Experiment Techniques There are many techniques to consider when designing an effective lean startup experiment, so we decided to capture a few of our favorites below. Mix-and-match each example to create a powerful experimental learning vehicle for your next concept. Even better, see if you can recognize these lean startup experiment examples next time you’re using your favorite application or website.

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The Science Behind Bernie Sanders Failed Movement, Explained

Digital Tonto

Until your movement is able to attract the support of those who do not immediately agree with you, it’s nothing more than a protest. Related posts: What Marketers Can Learn From The Civil Rights. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Are you Open Minded? Three ways to overcome dangerous thinking habits.

Idea to Value

Tedx Talk given by Paul Sloane at the University of Brighton March 2016. Everyone thinks that they are open minded but we are all mental prisoners of our beliefs and assumptions. How can we break out of dangerous thinking routines and become really creative? This talk gives three practical ways to change your mindset and become a better problem solver.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.